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Food Waste

Food waste has recently started stepping out of the murky shadows of our collective awareness. Any quick search results for food waste statistics are as sobering as they are stupefying. Statistics, such as Australians wasting over 8 billion dollars worth of food per year are staggering. The fact that 20% of all the food we buy is thrown away is angering.  Images like the 450,000 rubbish trucks filled with all of our wasted food lined up back to back, bridging the ditch between Australia and our Kiwi neighbours three times are nauseating. When we waste food this way, it’s not just money we waste. Depending on how that food was grown, we could also be throwing away topsoil, water, native habitat and ultimately…lives.
At AFSA, we believe one of the best ways to waste less is to eat better food. If a friend gives you a beautiful, emerald green broccoli that was lovingly grown in their garden, the chances of it going to waste would be much lower than if you’d bought some old broccoli at the supermarket. Connection equals care. The more connected we get to our food, the more care we ultimately give to that food. Whether we are growing more of our own, trading food with friends and neighbours or buying food from local farmers through a CSA or the farmer’s market, we are rebuilding our connections to where our sustenance comes from and ultimately caring more for everything connected to that food, and when you really start looking…thats darn near everything!
 

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Interesting, but few solutions at the food waste forum

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Local Laws submission to defend the right to common resources

Last week AFSA made a submission to the Hepburn Shire Council to defend residents’ rights to forage, collect firewood, have more than 20 chooks, and salvage materials from the tip and roadside without need for a permit. We were concerned that these laws originated from overzealous risk management policies rather than residents’ interests. Further, they […]

FSANZ proposes ‘licence to sell lettuce’ – AFSA says NO

On 3 May 2019, Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) released an information paper on its proposed approach to a review of food safety standards in the Food Standards Code (the Review). The intention is to create a consistent and up-to-date approach to food safety management with regard to so-called “high-risk horticulture,” which includes a […]

NSW Fresh Food Pricing Parliamentary Inquiry Hearing

On Friday 22 June 2018, AFSA attended the NSW Fresh Food Pricing Parliamentary Inquiry Hearing at Parliament House in Sydney. AFSA was selected and recognised as a key stakeholder in the food system by the parliamentary members in this Upper House inquiry. Tammi Jonas, president of AFSA, and our paralegal Sarah de Wit were welcomed […]

Response to the Proposed Draft Australian Animal Welfare Standards and Guidelines for Poultry

View AFSA’s entire submission here.  The current review of the Model Code of Practice for the Welfare of Animals – Domestic Poultry offers the first opportunity in 15 years to improve the minimum welfare standards for domestic poultry in Australia. It provides the chance to modify Australian standards to reflect current animal welfare science and […]

Poultry Welfare Reforms Fact Sheet

The Codes for animal welfare for poultry are being reviewed for the first time in over 15 years. The result will be one Australia-wide Code on animal welfare for poultry. Two main documents, along with an independent Farmed Bird Science Welfare Review and many supporting papers, have been released for public comment: The Draft Standards […]

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Recent posts

  • Intervention on the Global Biodiversity Framework calls for support to peasants and indigenous peoples’ as stewards of biodversity February 26, 2021
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